Kiss Me, Kate

ON OUR STAGE IN OUR 86TH SEASON

THE SHOW

music and lyrics by Cole Porter

book by Bella and Samuel Spewack

adapted from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

produced in cooperation with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.

“Another Op’nin’ Another Show” welcomes you to the opening of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Dashing Fred Graham is at the helm as director and leading man with his ex-wife Lilli playing Katherine the Shrew. His current love interest, Lois, also stars, as does Bill, the other man in her life. Before long, the musical Shrew is impacted by the volatile on-again/off-again romance of Fred and Lilli; the frustrating flirtations of Lois and Bill; and the appearance of two tough gangsters come to collect on a falsified IOU (and who end up joining the show, spats and all). Will the on-stage and off-stage lovers reunite, and will the show come to a successful end with everyone in one piece, before the curtain falls?